I'm alive! Tomorrow, after five exams in one week, I will finally be able to get my break over the Christmas. Three weeks without school. Oh, how I've longed for this. This will give me some well earned time to spend with my friends, some gaming and of course more programming. I have several interesting ideas which have piled up during the weeks. I wanted to list them here, wither for someone else to pick up or to get some feedback on what you guys think looks interesting. Enjoy!
I'm alive! Tomorrow, after five exams in one week, I will finally be able to get my break over the Christmas. Three weeks without school. Oh, how I've longed for this. This will give me some well earned time to spend with my friends, some gaming and of course more programming. I have several interesting ideas which have piled up during the weeks. I wanted to list them here, wither for someone else to pick up or to get some feedback on what you guys think looks interesting. Enjoy!
HTML5 based, fully customizable, media player
Ok, I'm totally sold on HTML5. There are great opportunities with enabling these features in browsers. I got inspired by the wealth of desktop-like applications there are on the web, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Spaces. The idea is to use the file and the sound API to create a media player which plays music stored on your local computer. There are several advantages with this. For example, you will never have to actively install or update your client, as long as you have an internet connection you will have the latest version in no time. Secondly, you could implement a login system and save all your settings between computers automatically. The most successful media players, (excluding iTunes and WMP since they are forced upon you), Winamp and Foobar have one thing in common, plugins. Therefore I would like to include the possibility to plugin custom javascript files to customize the players as they see fit.
EVE Online Tools
Since I play some EVE online I've been thinking about programming something with their very nice API which can access most data from characters and corporations in the game. I've been thinking about a bookkeeping system which tracks your transactions on the game and lets you organize and file them in different categories letting you see where your money comes from and what it goes to. Another idea is a corporation management system which let's you overview your corporation, including the bookkeeping system, viewing and check details about bookmarks, fittings, members, roles, tasks, etc. This is probably something that won't be realized soon.
An app for the new Spotify app system
Spotify has released their new app API to which allows developers to create apps for the new version of Spotify. Two friends have confronted me with a rather interesting ideas. One of them I can't really talk about at the moment but the other is a system which enables you to control Spotify from a remote location, like your phone, laptop or tablet. There already exists controls for stuff like play/pause but this would allow total remote control of Spotify, including searching, playlists and song selection.
That was all for the time being
Merry x-mas everyone!
This is the first part of a series of blog posts about my experiences in EVE Online written for evenews24.
I've been playing, or should I say survived, EVE for almost half a year now. From my experiences so far it feels like most people who play this game has been around since the dawn of time. There community seems well established with a lot of well-known facts and histories and a developed lingo. There is a lot I don't get when reading articles on evenews24. This is what encouraged me to write this post. I felt that someone should tell the story from another perspective, from the view of someone who wasn't around when Goons formed, from the eyes of a new player in this vast universe called EVE.
This is the first part of a series of blog posts about my experiences in EVE Online written for evenews24.
I've been playing, or should I say survived, EVE for almost half a year now. From my experiences so far it feels like most people who play this game has been around since the dawn of time. There community seems well established with a lot of well-known facts and histories and a developed lingo. There is a lot I don't get when reading articles on evenews24. This is what encouraged me to write this post. I felt that someone should tell the story from another perspective, from the view of someone who wasn't around when Goons formed, from the eyes of a new player in this vast universe called EVE.
Yes, we have all been there. We have all started up the game and thought: "what the hell is this?". Though some may not remember it. This is why I'm going to take you on a journey from when I started playing to the point where am I today. I hope this will act both as a nostalgic trip back to your baby days and also for players to see what the low-end of the game looks to players coming to the game, which from what I've understood is rather important considering CCP's economic situation.
Anyway, on with the story. I had been playing WoW for almost half a year when I found myself in an awkward position. I didn't really fit into the raid group of our guild and I couldn't be arsed to go and join a new one. It all soon became rather dull and I wanted to try a new MMO. Almost two years earlier a class mate had tried to show me EVE but it didn't really stick at that time. Surfing around the web I saw an ad and thought about trying it again. I reactivated my account and soon I was in space (free to do anything).
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Upon logging in I was greeted by EVE's famous wall of menus. I thought, "oh god, this will take some time". This was followed by a monotone greeting from Aura who after an hour or so had showed me the basics. So far so good. I was training some skills, doing some level 1 tutorial missions, just chillin' out all alone in space. Recalling the trailer, underlining the player-driven system the game is based on, I felt a little lonely in my Condor. I managed to persuade two of my friends who also had recently quit WoW to try it out. We all managed to choose characters of different races, but after some traveling we were finally united, only to find out that you had to train Ethnic Relations to form a corp together. I took the role as corp director and after two days or so we finally could work together for a common goal. The Space Marmots were formed, only to be disbanded a few days later after realizing three men ain't gonna cut it in the long run.
At this point I had been playing for a week or so I believe. I had entered the world of EVE. A game rumored to have a tremendous learning curve and basically kicking new players in the face, but also a game that is known for its player driven system which basically shapes the game. A class mate had told stories about EVE politics and how he had hunted down spies within their corp. I was excited. Armed with EVEMon and Google I stood facing a new step of my EVE career, my first encounter with the EVE community. That is, I joined the recruitment channel.
Part 2 (coming coon)
